Ruti Alon, Founder and CEO, Medstrada
Ora Dar, PhD, Senior Expert, Medical Sciences and Health Innovation
Nissim Darvish, MD, PhD, Managing General Partner, Eliraz Ventures
Prof. Yitshak Kreiss, Director General, Sheba Medical Center
Philippe Gallone, Partner and Head of Healthcare Investment Banking in EMEA, Goldman Sachs
Prof. Yinon Ben Neriah, The Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Awarded 2025 the Israel Prize in the Field of Medical Research | Why Cancer still Outsmarts Us: Challenges in the development of Cancer Therapeutics
12:15 – 14:15 | Sessions
HALL A
War-Time Innovation, Peace-Time Solutions: Harnessing Crisis-Driven Breakthroughs for the Future of Medicine
Moderator
Avner Halperin, CEO, Sheba Impact
Keynotes
Dr. Galia Barkai, MD, Director, Sheba Beyond
Col. Avi Shina, MD, Central Command Chief Medical Officer, IDF
Company Presenters
Shmulik Hess, PhD, COO, MediWound
Shai Feinsod, CEO, Tengable
Adi Shalev, Founder, Rescue Heat
Iris Shtein, CEO & Co-Founder, Mentaily
Mike Telem, Co-Founder & Chief Business Officer, Kemtai
Dr. Oran Yakubovsky, MD, CEO, Top Blood
Natalie Yona, Head of the Speech-Language Therapy Department, Cognishine
Salman Zubedat, CSO, MindTension (Sderot)
HALL B
Rewiring the Brain: Breakthroughs in Neurotech and Neuromodulation
Moderators:
Barry Greene, CEO, Sage Therapeutics
Iris Grossman, PhD, Chief Therapeutics Officer, Eleven Therapeutics
Keynote Speakers
Avi Yaron, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Serendipity Impact VC
Dr. Tanya Fischer, MD, Tenvie
Beni Surpin, Partner, Goodwin Procter LLP
Company Presenters
Alon Ben Noon, CEO & Co-Founder, NeuroSense Therapeutics
Amit Dar, PhD, Founder & CTO, Neurolief
Dr. Yotam Eldar, MD, Co-Founder & CEO, Modulight Bio
Chaim Lebovits, President & CEO, Brainstorm Cell Therapeutics
Dan Rappaport, CEO, BrainValue Neutotech
Oren Shriki, PhD, CTO & Co-Founder, NeuroHelp
Talia Cohen Solal, PhD, CEO & Co-Founder, NeuroKaire
Dror Talisman, Co-Founder & CEO, NeuroBrave
HALL C
AI Meets Pharma:Building a Sustainable Value for Biotech AI Innovation in Drug Development
Moderators:
Karin Noy, PhD, Senior Director, Pfizer
Yanay Ofran, PhD, Founder and Chairman, Biolojic Design
Keynote Speaker
Prof. Ziv Bar-Joseph, PhD, Co-founder & Chief Scientific Officer, GenBio AI
Company Presenters
Yaniv Erlich, PhD, CEO & Co-Founder, Eleven Therapeutics
TBD
Moderator
Yaron Daniely, PhD, General Partner, aMoon Fund
Company Presenters
Inbar Amit Avraham, PhD, VP of Drug Discovery, Biond Biologics
Ross Barrett, Managing General Partner, Cancer Focus Fund
Tehila Ben Moshe, PhD, Founder, CEO & Chairman, Biond Biologics
Sigal Kalmanson Cusnir, CEO, Starget Pharma
Avishai Levy, CEO, Tripod Therapeutics
Dr. Gur Roshwalb, MD, CEO, 1E Therapeutics
Ronen Segal, Chief Technology Officer, Alpha Tau
Yaron Sfadyah, CEO, Coltac Therapeutics
Prof. Yuval Tabach, Professor, Hebrew University
Fabian Tenenbaum, CEO, Nectin Therapeutics
HALL C
Aging Redefined: Breakthroughs in Science and Technology in Longevity
Dror Bin, Chief Executive Officer, Israel Innovation Authority
Bankers
Michael Margolis, Senior Managing Director, Head of Healthcare Investment Banking, Oppenheimer & Co.
Michael Rice, Founding Partner, LifeSci Advisors
Venture Capital
Nick Pachuda, MD, General Partner, Neovate Capital Partners
Mitchell Gold, MD, Venture Partner, Frazier Life Scienses
Ittai Harel, Managing Partner, Pitango Venture Capital
Dr. Jing Bao, MD, PhD, Partner, Shanghai Healthcare Capital (SHC)
Dr. Craig Yeshion, MD, Managing Director, Specialty Pharmaceuticals & Medical Devices, Perceptive Advisors
Dr. Boaz Hirshberg, MD, Senior Vice President, Clinical Development Unit Head, Internal Medicine, Regeneron | Regeneron: Relentless Innovation Powering an Impactful Pipeline from Allergy to Obesity and Beyond
HALL A
(I&I) Immunology and Inflammation Reclaim top Priorities in BioPharma: Driver and Opportunities?
Moderators:
Iris Grossman, PhD, Chief Therapeutics Officer, Eleven Therapeutics
Prof. Amnon Peled, PhD, Hadassah Medical Center
Keynote Speakers
Dr. Eran Harari, MD, Senior Vice President, Teva Pharmaceuticals
Mayan Katz, Partner, Tech & Life Sciences Group, Goodwin Procter LLP
Chen Schor, President & CEO, Adicet Bio
Company Presenters
Prof. Dror Harats, MD, CEO & Co-Founder, ImmuneWalk
Adi Mor, PhD, Co-Founder, CEO, CSO, Chemomab Therapeutics
Prof. Amnon Peled, PhD, Co-Founder, Associate Professor and the Director of the Gene Therapy Institute, Alon Bio
Prof. Rifaat Safadi, MD, Professor, The Hebrew University
Kfir Schreiber, Co-Founder & CEO, DeepCure
Dr. Tali Straub, MD, Co-Founder, Zelig Therapeutics
HALL B
HALL A
Illuminating the Path: Innovations and Challenges in Eye Care
Moderators:
Prof. Anat Loewenstein, MD, President of the Israeli Ophthalmological Society, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Chairperson of Ophthalmology, Sourasky Medical Center
Dr. Barak Azmon, MD, Director, Press-By
Jonathan Weyne, MD, Vice President Ophthalmology Therapeutic, Regeneron
Company Presenters
Aryeh Batt, CEO & Co-Founder, Precise Bio
Prof. (Emeritus) Michael Belkin, MD, Advisor, Former Head of the Ophthalmology Dpt., PBM Medical Technologies, TAU
Dr. Eugene de Juan Jr., MD, Founder, ForSight Labs
Elad Kedar, CEO, Orasis
Kester Nahen, CEO, Notal Vision
Nikolai Kunicher, CEO, NeuroTrigger
Daria Lemann Blumenthal, Co-Founder & CEO, Belkin Vision
Dana Rabinovich, PhD, Co-Founder & CEO, OphtiMed RX
Asaf Shiloni, Co-Founder & CEO, XOLTAR
Marianna Truman, Co-Founder & CEO, Orsight Pharma
Moshe Weinstein, CEO, Everads Therapy
HALL B
AI’s Next Leap in HealthTech – From Buzzwords (Gen AI, Agentic, LLM and Foundation Models) to Real World examples
Moderator:
Avi Veidman, CEO, Nucleai
Company Presenters
Eliron Amir, CEO, Serial AI/Health Entrepreneur, Rounds Health
Amit Bleiweiss, Senior Data Scientist, NVIDIA
Daniella Gilboa, Co-Founder & CEO, AIVF
Samuel Jefroykin, Director of Data & Research, Eleos Health
Dr. Robert Klempfner, MD, Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer, AISAP Ltd
Dana Sinai, PhD, Clinical Psychologist, VP Conversational AI, Laguna Health
Shelly Yehezkely, VP of AI, VIZ
HALL C
The Next Bite; Evidence-Based Bio-Food by Design
Moderator:
Tammy Meiron, PhD, Chief Technology Officer, Fresh Start FoodTech Incubator
Keynote Speakers
Prof. Uri Lesmes, Associate Professor, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology | Smart Reformulation of Food for Health of Different
Populations
Prof. Assaf Zinger, Assistant Professor, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology |Learning from Nature How to Target Diseases
Company Presenters
Ravit Darshan, PhD, CTO, Cinnovir
Eli Faraggi, Co-Founder & CEO, InnoBev | Clinically Proven IP Protected
Ingredients that Improve Focus by Chronobiology
Leehen Mashiah, PhD Student, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology | Sex-Based Variations in the In Vitro Digestibility of
Liquid and Powdered Milk and Oat Alternatives: Implications for Nutritional
Bioaccessibility
Guy Michrovskey, Founder & CEO, Profuse | Cultivated Muscle: A New Frontier
for Drug Discovery
Stav Peled, PhD Student, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology | Next-generation prebiotics: selective targeting of proteins to probiotic
bacteria in the colon
Ilan Samish, PhD, Founder & CEO, Amai Proteins | Healthy Sweetener by Precision Fermentation – Backed by Clinical Studied
10:00 – 10:30 | Rony Paz, Dean, Faculty of Biology; Director, Azrieli Institute for Brain and Neural Sciences; Weizmann Institute of Science
10:30 – 11:00 | Nick Pachuda, MD, General Partner, Neovate Capital Markets
HALL A
Evolving Trends in Orthopedic Innovations
Moderator:
Yuval Mandelbaum, CEO, Discure Technologies
HALL B
Michal Gilon Ohev-Zion, PhD, Founder & CEO, Everly Bio
HALL A
Defining the future – BioMed Start-ups Showcase and Competition
Moderators:
Yael Gruenbaum -Cohen, DMD, PhD, Partner, aMoon
Adar Makovski – Silverstein, VC, Business Development, Arkin Bio Ventures
